Dorsey in a tweet punned on "carpe diem" as Zuckerberg's embattled crypto project to trade a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin died a slow death. ( read original story ...)
Officials block Naomi Osaka from wearing TAG Heuer Connected on court
Having her wear a Connected smartwatch on court would have been a perfect promotion, TAG Heuer's CEO Frédéric Arnault suggests, but officials at the Australian Open prevented it. ( read original story ...)
The Beds at the Beijing Olympic Village Are Guaranteed to Make Tokyo Athletes Jealous
Ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, luge star Summer Britcher is giving everyone the down low about the Olympic Village in Beijing, including the high tech beds they're sleeping in at the games. ( read original story ...)
Sega leaves the Japanese arcade business for good
Sega is leaving Japanese arcades behind. The company announced it is selling its remaining arcades to a company called Genda, Inc. (also known as GiGO), and leaving the coin-op business, where it ... ( read original story ...)
S. Korea calls in Japanese envoy to protest Tokyo’s heritage push
Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koichi Aiboshi arrives at the foreign ministry in ... ( read original story ...)
Mainstream crypto adoption is a ‘double-edged sword’ and may not push prices higher, Goldman Sachs says
While broader crypto adoption can raise valuations, Goldman Sachs said this will also likely heighten correlations with other market variables. ( read original story ...)
LeBron James and Crypto.com Team up to Bring Web3 to Kids
The NBA superstar and crypto.com will bring Web3 to students and families of Akron, Ohio, where LeBron James was born. Four-time NBA champion and Los Angeles Laker LeBron James has partnered with ... ( read original story ...)
Social media scammers are making bank from crypto and romance fraud, the FTC said
Romance fraud is rampant on social media, and it’s gotten even bigger in 2021, according to a report from the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC found that people lost $770 million from social media ... ( read original story ...)
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says crypto has ‘disturbing’ parallels with subprime mortgage meltdown
"There are disturbing echoes of the subprime crash" in the cryptocurrency market, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says. ( read original story ...)
Lessons for crypto from Libor-bros
What crypto traders operating in the grey area of quasi-regulated markets should pay attention to in this story is that just because something isn’t technically illegal today doesn’t mean it won’t be ... ( read original story ...)
Japan warns underpriced IPOs could constitute antitrust law violation
The Japan Fair Trade Commission on Friday cautioned brokerage firms about the potential violation of the antimonopoly law by underpricing initial public offerings. A JFTC report on IPO prices said ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Nikkei rebounds on bargain buying
However, market gains were limited amid concerns about the raging spread of the coronavirus omicron variant and its impact on the pace of economic recovery, with daily new COVID-19 cases in Japan ... ( read original story ...)
BOJ’s Kuroda says Japan must cooperate with US, Europe on cenbank digital currency norms
Japan must cooperate with Europe and the United States in creating a global standard on the technical aspects of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the chief of Japan's central bank said ... ( read original story ...)
Citi Private Bank says China and Japan are its top market picks for Asia
Ken Peng of bank discusses the relatively mild inflationary pressures in Asia and explains why China and Japan are markets to watch. ( read original story ...)
A Naomi Osaka Aquaracer, and the big watch trends for 2022
Barely is the ink dry on the Christmas thank-you letters, and we are into the first watch fair of the new year. LVMH Watch Week is a relative newcomer to the fair circuit, having had its inaugural ... ( read original story ...)
IMF urges Japan to scale back pandemic support, raise taxes in long run
The International Monetary Fund urged Japan on Friday to scale back emergency pandemic support, and consider raising taxes on property and capital income once the economy's recovery from the ... ( read original story ...)